It concentrates on the Golovin family from Obukhovo, a village renamed when the new serfdom of collectivisation arrived, the church bells taken away to be melted down as peasants ululate.

• 这部分主要讲述了住在奥布科沃村的格勒温家的故事。奥布科沃这个村名是新的集体农奴制到来时改的。村民看着教堂的钟被拆除熔毁，痛哭流涕。